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Having accidentally come across the pronunciation test I was somewhat annoyed to be told thatI had got one wrong – “Is food and good pronounced the same?”
Your answer : No – food has a longer “o”.
The majority of native English speakers, like me, would disagree. The use of an extended diphthong in the word “food” is characteristic of affected speech so common in southern England. It is sometimes taken to an extreme where the word is pronounced : fe-ew-ed.
I am a native English speaker from the northern part of the Union and the distortions emanating from the south-east are very annoying at times. The dropped “r” and the intrusive “r” are constant. A wildly growing phenomenon is – “outside of” – even adopted by some BBC journalists.

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My name is Tomasz P. Szynalski. I live in Poland. In the 1990s, my friend and I taught ourselves to speak English fluently (with a native-like American accent) in about 3 years, using some unorthodox learning techniques. In 2001, we founded Antimoon to share our insights with other English learners.